Originally Posted by
bronko22000
The original poster is not FL resizing cases that he shot in another rifle. For a hunting rifle there is absolutely no need to partial size or neck size. You should FL size every case.
I'd really like to know how you can measure to within .001" to a rounded case shoulder? Unless you have a superb set of calipers that is pretty hard to believe unless you could measure the same dimension, say, 25 times and get the same repeatable results then I would agree.
I'm just trying to imagine how you bump back a shoulder in a standard die without FL sizing. The way a die is designed the shoulder should not get touched unless the case is inserted fully into the die.
Its not hard but you need to be creative unless you have the proper tools, here's how I do it, say you are loading 270 cases, take a case and punch the neck out to 7mm, screw your sizer up so its only sizing the neck almost to the shoulder, screw it down just a bit at a time, trying to chamber the round after each time, when the case will chamber with just a bit of resistance, screw the die in 1/16th turn and lock it down, that setting will be good for 5-6 loadings till you have to anneal and bump the shoulders back.
RR